Crowding Out Trust: The Adverse Effects of Verification. An Experiment.
Through an experiment, this study investigates the effects that verification has on honest traders. This paper demonstrates that by reducing the scope for trust verification can have a negative effect on the behaviour of honest individuals. Specifically, the analysis shows that trustworthy agents ar...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2002
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